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I fucking hate this sort of crap. Just like I hate Marvels baby variants, polybags, trading cards, etc. I like a nice, regular cover, preferably related to what's going on in the book. I also hate the pinup, no relation to the story regular covers companies do. I hate a lot of things.

I wouldn't pay an extra dollar for a cover no matter what, though. Maybe when I was in high school. I think they would have been fine with the themed 2D covers for the event. And the clusterfuck of an execution with the limited numbers just makes it completely not worth it, especially if they are actually losing money on each one as they claim. Marketing masturbation.

I went with no... mostly because, although the art on some of them was OK in 2D, the 3D ones actually hurt my eyes to look at in the comic shop. I didn't have any on my pull list anyway, but if I had, I'd probably have asked if I could exchange 'em.

Typically, I don't buy comic books for the cover so this gimmick never actually appealed to me. It's a neat effect but I feel that it would have been better on a book like Forever Evil rather than slapping it on every comic that DC published this month.

Grayson wrote:Typically, I don't buy comic books for the cover so this gimmick never actually appealed to me. It's a neat effect but I feel that it would have been better on a book like Forever Evil rather than slapping it on every comic that DC published this month.

Not with all the cast I think I saw on the Forever Evil #1 cover, the more crowded you make the artwork, the less dramatic the lenticular effect would be.

Victorian Squid wrote:Not with all the cast I think I saw on the Forever Evil #1 cover, the more crowded you make the artwork, the less dramatic the lenticular effect would be.

Obviously if they went with my idea the covers of Forever Evil would have needed to be altered which isn't a bad thing. It's not like that cover is particularly dynamic or iconic. The first issue had variant covers featuring Ultraman, Superwoman, and Owlman. Perhaps they could have made a 3D cover for each issue of the series that featured a different member of the Crime Syndicate.

Grayson wrote:Obviously if they went with my idea the covers of Forever Evil would have needed to be altered which isn't a bad thing. It's not like that cover is particularly dynamic or iconic. The first issue had variant covers featuring Ultraman, Superwoman, and Owlman. Perhaps they could have made a 3D cover for each issue of the series that featured a different member of the Crime Syndicate.